3 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 16

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 238 Set by Allan M. Laing Competitors

are invited, for a prize of £5, to submit sets of three clerihews whosil rhymes are eye-rhymes and whose subjects are any writers, living or dead. For example) The late W. T. Stead Loathed mead And almost never drank claret In a cabaret.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 238,' 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, must be received not later than September 14. Results in the Spectator of September 24.